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Adelo Wobse, Belete; Haile Menuta, Yohannes; Debu Liga, Abebe – Cogent Education, 2022
In Sub-Saharan African countries like Ethiopia, the waiting time for graduates before having their first job is very high. This study aimed at predicting the waiting time to get their first job and the effects of the associated factors. A retrospective study was conducted based on the 2021 graduate tracer survey data at Wolkite University. By…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Employment Potential, Employment Patterns
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Yoon, Hyung Joon; Ahn, Sungsik; Kang, Eun Hee – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2019
The purpose of this study was to develop a job-seeking competency model for North Korean defectors (NKDs) who are college students in South Korea. This study adopted the Delphi method with a panel of 17 experts, comprising of NKDs who secured their jobs successfully and South Korean field experts who have hired NKDs or assisted them with their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, College Students, Job Applicants
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Carmichael, Fiona; Darko, Christian; Kanji, Shireen – Education Economics, 2021
Education is key to development strategies in Africa. We use overeducation and undereducation to analyse the effectiveness of education in preparing individuals for employment in Kenya and Ghana, using the Skills Towards Employment and Productivity Survey. Systematic differences in wages between matched, overeducated and undereducated workers hold…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Job Search Methods, Social Networks, Foreign Countries
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Lin, Yi-Jiun; Flores, Lisa Y. – Journal of Career Development, 2013
Using a sample of 86 East Asian international graduate students, this study examined Bandura's perceived self-efficacy model (1986) in the domain of job search self-efficacy and tested the mediating effects of job search self-efficacy in the relationship between efficacy source variables and job search behaviors. Results show that both performance…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Career Development, Graduate Students, Foreign Students
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Seepersaud, Deborah, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2021
For the forty-fourth time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented online and onsite during the annual AECT Convention. Volume 1 contains papers dealing primarily with research and development topics. Papers dealing with…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Feedback (Response), Course Evaluation
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Kokas, Maria Sarivalas – Performance Improvement, 2010
Still-rising national jobless rates are surpassing 8.9%. This translates to millions of ill-prepared job seekers, raising complex questions about how to manage layoffs. Even if workers receive severance benefits, most struggle with how to move on and find jobs. Rather than focusing primarily on work skills and practices within individual…
Descriptors: Structural Unemployment, Job Layoff, Job Search Methods, Job Applicants